Teen escort company
Encyclopedia
Teen escort company, also called a youth transport firm, is a term used in the United States
and Denmark
to describe a business that specializes in transporting teenagers from their homes to various facilities.
are able to hire teen escort companies to transport their children from home to mental health
treatment facilities, teen residential programs, wilderness therapy
programs, therapeutic boarding school
s, boot camps, or behavior modification programs
.
Parents may use this type of service when they believe their child needs treatment outside the home, but are not willing to travel there. In 2004 it was estimated that there were more than twenty teen escort companies operating in the United States.
Often teens to be transported are picked up during the night, to take advantage of their initial disorientation and to minimize confrontation and flight risk.
The use of such services is controversial, because the services are subject to little or no government regulation and because they are associated with treatment services which are themselves controversial. For teenagers seized in the middle of the night by strangers, the experience of being taken away by a teen escort company involves considerable stress and may result in permanent trauma.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
to describe a business that specializes in transporting teenagers from their homes to various facilities.
United States
As a transport option, parents in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
are able to hire teen escort companies to transport their children from home to mental health
Mental health
Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
treatment facilities, teen residential programs, wilderness therapy
Wilderness therapy
Wilderness therapy is a subset of adventure-based therapy. It is the use of wilderness expeditions for the purpose of therapeutic intervention. There are a range of different types of wilderness therapy programs, with a range of models and approaches. Some grow out of a survival approach and some...
programs, therapeutic boarding school
Therapeutic boarding school
A therapeutic boarding school , alternatively known as an emotional growth boarding school, is a boarding school based on the therapeutic community model that offers an educational program together with specialized structure and supervision for students with emotional and behavioral problems,...
s, boot camps, or behavior modification programs
Behavior modification facility
A behavior modification facility is a residential educational and treatment institution enrolling adolescents who are perceived as displaying antisocial behavior, in an attempt to alter their conduct. As of 2008 there were about 650 nongovernmental, residential programs in the United States...
.
Parents may use this type of service when they believe their child needs treatment outside the home, but are not willing to travel there. In 2004 it was estimated that there were more than twenty teen escort companies operating in the United States.
Often teens to be transported are picked up during the night, to take advantage of their initial disorientation and to minimize confrontation and flight risk.
The use of such services is controversial, because the services are subject to little or no government regulation and because they are associated with treatment services which are themselves controversial. For teenagers seized in the middle of the night by strangers, the experience of being taken away by a teen escort company involves considerable stress and may result in permanent trauma.